Can you believe they've come this far by now? Once known as OpenBeOS, Haiku today announced the release of the fourth alpha for Haiku R1. It seems like only yesterday when BeOS died and OpenBeOS rose form its ashes, generating a new hope among the legions of avid BeOS fans. Now, almost twelve years later, we've hit the fourth alpha.

Ah great! I still have a BeOs 4.5 CD-ROM around, back then it was technically the best OS available for desktop use. A year ago I tried Haiku. I'm not really fond of the UI, but it's a great project and giving Haiku a try is easy. The Haiku installer will give you no headaches. Just try it :-)